Joan Plowright, perhaps the greatest Anglophone actor of the 20th century and the widow of Laurence Oliver, has died. She was ...

Joan and Laurence were married until he died in 1989. Learn all about the late Baron and Baroness’ marriage. Joan Plowright met the love of her life in husband Laurence Olivier. Their marriage was a ...

They were inseparable as they performed “The Entertainer” on Broadway in 1958 and on-screen in 1960. Ms. Plowright was quickly subsumed into Olivier’s social and professional orbit but ...

British acting legend Dame Joan Plowright has died at 95. The actor, who was married to fellow acting great, Lord Laurence Oliver from 1961 to his death in 1989, "died peacefully on Jan. 16, 2025 ...

Tony Award-winning actress Joan Plowright, one of the most notable British actresses of her generation, has died at 95.

When Olivier saw the play, he visited her backstage to introduce himself and congratulate her. Two years later, they appeared together onstage in John Osborne’s comic drama “The Entertainer ...

A Tony Award winner in 1961 for Tony Richardson and George Devine’s A Taste of Honey and an Oscar nominee for Mike Newell’s Enchanted April (1991), Plowright belonged to a celebrated group of British ...

She married Olivier in 1961 after starring opposite him as his daughter in The Entertainer, and became a leading member of the National Theatre, which he set up. In a statement, her family said they ...

She was also a BAFTA-nominated star who earned critical praise for her performance in Tony Richardson’s 1960 film, “The Entertainer,” which also starred Olivier as her father. Plowright ...

Plowright was nasal and squeaky when she first made an impression on movie audiences as the adoring granddaughter of Laurence Olivier's title character in John Osborne's The Entertainer in 1960.

Plowright brought stage and screen characters to vibrant life for more than six decades in such works as A Taste of Honey, ...